We all know the story…
CD sales are sky diving, P2P services are incredibly popular, record labels are stubborn, and music fans are getting sued.
Can this nightmare ever be fixed? The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created a plan that in theory could work to combatant the nightmare we’ve all heard above. Their proposal, “A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing” breaks down an innovative plan that seemingly could work.
In brief, the plan is to have file sharers pay a small fee every month to a blanket or collective liscense that is almost exactly the same as what radio…
Researchers at Michigan State University have found that 90 percent of TV commercials contain some type of music and yet the use of jingles is declining.
David Allan analyzed more than 3,400 ads from one week of programming on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX. Allan, whose work appeared in the Journal of Advertising Research, said he believes the increased use of music is due to music-file sharing on the Internet. He noted music companies are realizing that their stars’ music in ads is a type of product placement and advertisers are realizing the star power of some performers.
Of course, not every musical…
Gerd Leonhard, media and technology futurist, posted to his blog a very interesting article on what he thinks are the developing trends in business communications. He goes over a brief history of communications spanning from the phone to social media, and then shares a very intriguing graph of where he believes communications are headed.
As you can see, phone and email use are way down, while social networks and media are the main tools of communicating.
Mr. Leonhard says that already the #1 way that people reach him is through his various social networks. He says a great advantage of this is the…
From a post that I recently wrote on Artists House Music:
Calling all independent artists!!! Bandcamp is here, have no fear! I think.
For those of y’all who have not checked out bandcamp.mu, you’re missing out. Not only is this the sexiest place that I’ve seen where independent artists can call their music’s home, but it looks as if its not all bells and whistles.
I’m not going to explain all of the fancy features in detail, Ethan Diamond’s screencast is wonderful and I encourage everyone to take the six minutes to watch it; you won’t be disappointed. In particular, the graphs that show the differing…
After years and years of lawyers telling users to pull down copyrighted content from YouTube, MtV and Viacom have changed their minds.
YouTube has announced they will start using a service called Auditude, a file identifying service that matches voices and videos with television shows and videos already in their database. It’s been reported that within seconds of uploading content, Audible can scan and tag the clip, and then identify which show it might have originated from. The end result is an identified video, and YouTube can then use the information to monetize the video by posting an ad over…
So, you want your podcast to be easily accessible to millions of people, well, why not list it on iTunes? That way people who don’t get their podcasts any other way, and there are quite a few of those, will have access to your broadcast.
Here is your Step - By- Step
1. Get your RSS feed URL, you will have to have it on hand.
2. Open iTunes, or if you don’t have it download it, then open it.
3. Go to the iTunes store.
4. From the pull down genre menu, choose podcasts.
5. Find the ‘Publish a podcast’…
In the beginning ….. an Introduction ….
First of all, I want to thank the folks at Talent Zoo for asking me to be one of their bloggers at Digital Pivot. ‘Tis an honor I don’t deserve. I will try to make my blogs interesting, witty and thoughtful.
Initially, I want to share with you my perspectives, creative background and the source of my creative musings. So, sit back, read on and get to know me.
There are so any things going on in the interactive, broadcast and new media platforms that it is near impossible to keep up with it all. In…
An interesting paradigm shift happened recently in the entertainment world. Unless you share musical tastes similar to myself and sported a mullet and Metallica shirt through the seminal metal years of 1983-1991, the release of anything new by Motley Crue most likely didn’t register anywhere on your radar.
You probably wondered to your self, “Self? They’re still alive?” Yes they are. Bow down.
During the first week of release, the eponymous single from their new album, Saints of Los Angeles, shifted 47,000 downloads. In this era of marginal music sales still eclipsed by rampant piracy, this might not be superficially significant. To me it is. It’s not the…
It’s possible to learn some handy graphic design tips from the Webby Award winning online video series You Suck at Photoshop. But You Suck, from creators Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch, teaches entertainment and advertising creatives a lot more about how to tell a story in the online medium.
As story, Donnie Hoyle’s tortured tutorials involving the use of the cloning tool and the horrible breakdown of his marriage is brilliant.
That’s because it shows us what elements are most important for telling a good story on the web:
- First-Person Point-of-View: Donnie talks right at us. This is completely one man’s life. Narrow focus.
- Specific World: You…
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace” - Sir Chimhoy Ghose.
Every now and then a friend of mine from the other side of the world sends me a link of an item that moved him or her, that link sparked something with in them and they choose to take the time and spread their thought and emotions regarding that event. I decide to take my precious time and embark on an adventure which will connect us to a higher meaning of relationships. This bonds us and make us wonder about how souls connect and…
